Warning over maternity leave threat to women's careers

A commission has claimed that the right for a woman in the UK to take a year for maternity leave may be making employers hesitant to hire or promote women, for fear of losing them for a eyar down the line."THE right to a year's maternity leave could be ruining women's...

Malaysia's PM 'to quit in 2010'

Malaysia's embattled Prime Minister has announced that he will step down in two years' time, leaving power to his deputy. However, the pressure upon him was to step down this year, and his deputy is also accused of...

Consumers Favor Hybrid Technologies

"Americans, to quote JFK, seem willing to "pay any price" to achieve better gas mileage. As gasoline prices pass $4 a gallon, consumers remain high on hybrids. That holds true both before and after the average market price -- $5,000 -- is revealed, according to the J.D....

China puts nation on alert to try to stop deadly virus

Another deadly virus has the Chinese authorities worried."BEIJING - China's Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert Saturday calling for heightened efforts to control a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and shows signs of spreading. ...

A Brief Introduction to Leather Lingerie

"Leather Lingerie is an erotic and sensual way to implement role playing and more sexual excitement into your lifestyle. The feel of leather on bare skin is an experience that can bring unending pleasure and fantasy all by itself. For some individuals, just the distinct smell...

US Navy Fighters Intercept Two Russian Planes

Well, this is rather 'Cold War'-esque, isn't it: US and Russian plane interceptions during classified top secret flights. Are we in 2008 or 1988?"U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific...

Security stepped up for Grand Prix

"THE heightened risk of terrorist attacks has forced Northamptonshire Police to step up security levels for the British Grand Prix next weekend. Following incidents in London and Glasgow this week, an increased police presence will be enforced at the event, which will take...

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Raúl Castro's inner circle an indication of changes in Cuba

"Vice President Carlos Lage, a 55-year-old who once served on a medical mission to Ethiopia, became the nation's economic czar in the early 1990s. And now Lage has become one of the few Cuban politicians to stand out...

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Five planes monitored in radiation probe

"LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is monitoring five planes for radiation in an ever widening probe into the poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow. Home Secretary John Reid told...

Gemayel Murder Portends New Bloodshed in Lebanon

"Even before the killing of a key Christian politician, Beirut was primed for trouble. Now, it may be hard to avoid confrontation. The streets of Beirut filled with cars fleeing the city as soon as news spread that one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian politicians, Pierre...

Pierre Gemayel Kill

"Pierre Gemayel,34, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family,has been gunned down in Jdeideh this Tuesday in an assassination that heightened tensions amid a showdown betwee"

Dissecting the Vatican's Ramadan Diplomacy

"That singular Roman dialect known as Vaticanese can sometimes turn so vague as to be incomprehensible. But on Friday, when French Cardinal Paul Poupard presented the Vatican's annual message for the end of Ramadan, there was no doubt about what was meant by the "particular...

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